Happy Full Moon

 

Blessings of the Full Moon in Sagittarius!

May your hopes and dreams blossom in beauty.

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Beltane Full Moon

 

Happy Beltane and Full Moon in Scorpio!

May this day bring love and joy.

(Painting by Gustave Dore)

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For Earth Day

Precatio Terrae: 

"Holy Goddess, Tellus, Mother of all Nature, engendering all things and regenerating them each day, as you alone bring forth from your womb all things into life. Heavenly Goddess, overseeing all things on earth and throughout the seas, in whatever by silent nature is restored in sleep and in death, in the same way that you put to flight the night with the light you restore each day. 

Earth, Enricher of Life, you dispel the dark shadow of death and the disorder of vast endless Chaos. You hold back the winds and storms, the rain showers and tempests. You alone regulate the weather cycles, either bestirring or putting to flight the storm, interspersing them with cheerful days. 

You give the Food of Life unfailingly, in fidelity, and when the soul by necessity departs, in you alone do we find refuge. Thus, whatever you give, in you all will be returned. Deservedly are you called Great Mother of the Gods. Piously then are all the celestial powers distilled in you. The One and True Parent of all living things, human and divine. Without you nothing could be born, nothing could grow, and nothing mature. 

You are the Great Goddess, the Queen of Heaven, you, Goddess, I adore. I call upon your power, come. Make what I ask to be readily and easily accomplished, and draw my thanks, Mother Earth, that, in fidelity, you do rightly merit. 

Hear me, please, and favor me. This I ask of you, Holy Mother, and may you willingly give answer to me: may whatever herbs grow by your providence bring health to all humankind. May you now send these forth to me as your medicines. May they be filled with your healing virtues. May everything that I prepare from these herbs have good result, each and every one in the same way. As I shall receive these herbs from you, so too shall I willingly give them out to others, so that their health too may be ensured through your good graces. Finally, Mother Earth, ensure your healing powers for me as well. This I humbly ask."

(Written by Antonius Musa, trans. M. Piscinus; photo of relief from the walls of the Ara Pacis Augustae, 13 BCE.)

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Full Moon Blessings

Happy Full Pink Moon in Libra!

May you always find Balance in Beauty.

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Happy Equinox

 May your Equinox be blessed with beauty and peace. 

 
 
   
(art by W. Goble)

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Happy Women's Day

 

Celebrating International Women's Day!

(© art by Tracy Turner)

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Happy Full Moon

 

Blessings of the Full Moon in Virgo.

As the lunar eclipse takes place, may we take a moment to

acknowledge the wisdom and beauty found in the dark, as well as in the light.

(photo © F. Espenak, Nasa website)

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Discovery beneath the Assur Ishtar Temple

 

"The study proposes an intriguing hypothesis: The sand may have been chosen not for its appearance but for its place of origin. It is possible that sand from the Zagros was selected precisely because it was territory under the aegis of the Hurrian goddess Shawushka. By building the temple for Ishtar in Assur, the founders may have wanted to physically connect their goddess with the land of a similar and powerful deity, thus rooting the new cult in a regional tradition. This gesture could represent a conscious fusion of influences. The inhabitants of Assur, located at a key crossroads between the two areas [southern Mesopotamia and the Hurrian region], may have deliberately sought to combine both traditions when establishing the sanctuary and cult of their goddess, the text suggests."

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(photo F. Mahmood, Wikimedia Commons)

Full Moon Blessings

Happy Full Moon in Leo.

May peace come forth in strength and beauty.

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